William Henry Cardinal O’Connell †

Deceased

Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente

Motto: Vigor In Arduis

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Dec 1859		Born
7 Jun 1884	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1895²	35.0	Appointed	Rector of the Pontifical North American College
14 May 1901	41.4	Appointed	Bishop of Portland, Maine, USA
19 May 1901	41.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Portland, Maine, USA
7 Feb 1906	46.1	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
7 Feb 1906	46.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Constantia in Scythia
30 Aug 1907	47.7	Succeeded	Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
27 Nov 1911	51.9	Elevated to Cardinal
30 Nov 1911	51.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente
22 Apr 1944	84.3	Died	Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
William Henry O’Connell
William Henry Cardinal O’Connell
(born 8 Dec 1859, died 22 Apr 1944)
Archbishop of Boston

Consistory - 1911: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1914: Unable to Participate
Conclave - 1922: Unable to Participate
Conclave - 1939: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Lowell, MA, Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts

a priest for 59.8 years
a bishop for 42.9 years
a cardinal for 32.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Principal Consecrator:
Francesco di Paolo Cardinal Satolli †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edmund Stonor †
Titular Archbishop of Trapezus
Archbishop Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta †
Titular Archbishop of Nicaea

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Francesco di Paolo Cardinal Satolli † (1888)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Eric Francis MacKenzie † (1918)
Richard James Cardinal Cushing † (1921)
Bishop Thomas Joseph Riley † (1927)
Bishop Bernardino Nicola Mazzarella, O.F.M. † (1931)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Gaudentius Anderson † (1909)
Bishop John Joseph Nilan † (1910)
Bishop John Bertram Peterson † (1927)
Bishop Thomas Addis Emmet, S.J. † (1930)
Richard James Cardinal Cushing † (1939)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Bernard Delany (Delaney) † (1904)
Bishop Frederick Franz Linneborn, C.S.C. † (1909)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/168515
VIAF: 47563840
WikiData: Q1348458

Source(s):

ab: CB, 29 Oct 2011
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 464
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1901, Number 18
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 90
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 11, Number 533, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 14, Number 717, Ascendance

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